It's a good song, it's an amusing enough video, but why is it #2 on Youtube with 28 million views and 125,000 comments? The best I've found is this article, which I was fine with until "Music critic Cha Woo-jin compared the popularity to the Korean craze over the Indian bhangra song “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Daler Mehndi in the early 2000s."

I'm with sadude, its just blown out of proportion at this point and has become the new "Asian novelty" song for the next few months thanks to the Olympics. I just have a pretty big problem with things getting popular because of pure novelty, and especially when it comes from Asia, then white people just see it as something to laugh at because its different. I actually just had a bit of this discussion with Wapiko a few weeks ago on Facebook regarding Kyary Pyamu Pyamu. These kinds of things blur the borders between what is being created to exploit people and what is actually being created as an art form or expression.

Gangnam Style is really kind of annoying, the song is generic as hell and there are MUCH funnier and more entertaining things out there, but just the fact that it had a big-time mainstream exposure has caused it to explode and go viral. White people are generally interested in things that they aren't used to for a few minutes before they move on to something else.

Whether you think its worth critiquing or looking that far into or not, I don't care, just giving my two cents on this whole fad.

AEUG, since you're now in my forum, I can properly give my two cents on something...your signature is fucking massive, please learn to use the resize canvas tool.

I did use it, and I know how, but I run my computer on a 60" monitor at a really high resolution, so I have to zoom in really far to be able to read things, so its hard for me to tell how large it looks when people view it on their computer. Its not page-breaking or scroll-breaking, at least on my screen.

AEUG, since you're now in my forum, I can properly give my two cents on something...your signature is fucking massive, please learn to use the resize canvas tool.

I did use it, and I know how, but I run my computer on a 60" monitor at a really high resolution, so I have to zoom in really far to be able to read things, so its hard for me to tell how large it looks when people view it on their computer. Its not page-breaking or scroll-breaking, at least on my screen.

I did use it, and I know how, but I run my computer on a 60" monitor at a really high resolution, so I have to zoom in really far to be able to read things, so its hard for me to tell how large it looks when people view it on their computer. Its not page-breaking or scroll-breaking, at least on my screen.

A friend put this song on my facebook the other day. I'm usually not too cynical in my opinion, but I don't get this fad either. It's a cool video and song, but does no one remember DJOZMA anymore? They were the same kind of ridiculousness a while back, so I guess all my music weird is lost after acts like that and Lady Gaga and so on.

So interesting how that article points out how much depth there really is to the video and song, yet 99.99999999% of people who watch it and say they love it aren't tuned into that in the slightest. The entire thing is a parody of posh South Korean lifestyles that is basically just insulting a large percentage of their population. Turns out there really was something behind the images in the video, not just randomness like most adopters thought. Oh, irony.

So interesting how that article points out how much depth there really is to the video and song, yet 99.99999999% of people who watch it and say they love it aren't tuned into that in the slightest. The entire thing is a parody of posh South Korean lifestyles that is basically just insulting a large percentage of their population. Turns out there really was something behind the images in the video, not just randomness like most adopters thought. Oh, irony.

Well, I think it is something in the middle. The video is mocking the so-called Gangnam Life in a really obvious way to anyone watching it because there is such a huge gap between how the singer presents himself and the reality of his circumstances. So, would you really say all watchers are that clueless to the joke? Also, I don't think either article (this one and the one it links to) are arguing there is "so much depth" but that it is a gentle satire.

Anyway, I'm glad I read the article because the video just got more ridiculous.

Yeah, when I saw this showing up on political blogs, I knew it had crossed the threshold from Kpop hit to worldwide viral sensation. It's a great, catchy song, and one of the few that watching the video makes better. I was kind of hoping some American pop radio stations would slip it into light-rotation just for the hell of it.

Yeah, when I saw this showing up on political blogs, I knew it had crossed the threshold from Kpop hit to worldwide viral sensation. It's a great, catchy song, and one of the few that watching the video makes better. I was kind of hoping some American pop radio stations would slip it into light-rotation just for the hell of it.

Some Finnish radio stations have already started playing it, whenever it is requested at least I think the exposure is great, even if it is just for laughs.